, Robert Amor” , Ewan Tempero”
Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
mhsi005@ec.auckland.ac.nz
”£¢ trebor,ewan¤ @auckland.ac.nz
Abstract
Software Reuse is a concept that is frequently mentioned as a
way to improve software developers' productivity. However, there
are a number of issues that need to be addressed in order for soft-
ware reuse to be adopted by developers. One of those issues is
providing enough reusable artifacts. The Java Standard API has
been quite successful in this, with the latest version having over
3000 classes available. However this raises the issue of finding
the right artifact to reuse. With the Java API, this means trawling
through the JavaDoc webpages, which has the risk of not being
able to find the right artifact, even though it is in the API. In this